♂James Treat

James Treat (baptised 20 July 1634 – 12 February 1709) was a landholder of Wethersfield, in the Connecticut Colony^W, baptised at Pitminster, in Somerset, England, and the youngest son of Richard Treat. His father’s will of 1668/69 calls him “my youngest sonne” and leaves him his mill and “my little bible”. He was a brother of Honor Treat (1616–1690), the eighth great-grandmother of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), and a son of Richard Treat and Alice Gaylard.

Pitminster

The Treat Family (1893), a compiled genealogy, lists his baptism at Pitminster on 20 July 1634 among the children of Richard Treat and Alice Gaylard, and gives him a place after his sister Alice, who was buried in 1633. His parents had married in the same parish in 1615, and by 1641 his father was at Wethersfield.

His father’s will

Richard Treat’s will, dated 13 February 1668/69, names his sons in order: Richard, “my eldest son”, who received the farm of Nayog; Robert, “my second sonne”; and James, “my youngest sonne”. To James it gave the mill and grinding stone, with farm timber, chains and other equipment, and “my little bible”. His sister Honor Deming received “my great bible”. The will was exhibited in court on 3 March 1669/70.

Wethersfield

Nathaniel Goodwin’s Genealogical Notes (1856) calls him Lieutenant James Treat, and the printed Wethersfield vital records name a Lieutenant James Treat, justice of the peace, as the officiant at marriages in the town between 1695 and 1707. The records do not say what command he held. A Wethersfield marriage of 27 December 1704 names the bride, Rebecca Treat, as a daughter of Lieutenant James, and Goodwin gives a daughter Rebecca to this James.

Goodwin also gives his marriage to Rebecca Lattimer, a daughter of John Lattimer, one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, on 26 January 1665, and lists a large family of children. The probate of a son, Richard Treat of Wethersfield, confirms the outline from a record. His will, proved in 1713, speaks of lands coming to him from “my hond. father, Mr. James Treat, late of Wethersfield”, by a will dated 29 January 1708/9, after the death of his mother, Rebecca Treat. It names his brothers Salmon and Joseph Treat and his sisters Jemima Chester and Mabel Treat.

Death

Goodwin gives his death as 12 February 1709, at the age of 74; The Treat Family gives the same day, “in his 75th year”. His will is dated a fortnight before that.